Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete variant of heliebore. Chaucer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Hellebore.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of hellebore.

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Examples

  • Consulo tibi ut ad Anticyram te conferas, noting thereby that he was crazed, atque ellebore indigere, had much need of a good purge.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Madmen are also; but the more firmly they form a judgment on things which do not exist, the more ellebore they require.

    The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

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